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Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Real Estate

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A Little Yuletide Murder

Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain · 304 pages

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Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 256 pages

***Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie.*** Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. **The local inspector and Miss Marple sort

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The Cat Who Went Up the Creek

Lilian Jackson Braun · 226 pages

Koko, Yum Yum, and James Qwilleran embark on their latest mystery when gold prospectors, wildlife photographers, and pirates arrive at the Nutcracker Inn to take part in a game.

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Progressive Dinner Deadly

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 214 pages

Retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover is fit to be tied when her book club votes to change to a supper club. Outrageous! The first supper club is a progressive dinner ... where Myrtle loses interest during the hors d'oeuvres. But when a body is discivered during the main course, the evening quickly gets interesting.

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The Christmas Cookie Killer

Livia J. Washburn

Christmas comes to Weatherford, Texas, in this delicious new entry in the national bestselling series.Yuletide is here—and retired teacher cum amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom looks forward to finishing up this unlucky year. But she won’t be hanging up her apron just yet—because this year’s Christmas bake-off is going to be cutthroat.Phyllis would like to think she’s entering the Christmas cookie con

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How to Seal Your Own Fate

Kristen Perrin · 320 pages

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We Solve Murders

Richard Osman · 460 pages

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life in the New Forest. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he likes his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he gets home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul: she doesn’t stay still long enough fo

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A Dark and Stormy Murder

Julia Buckley · 304 pages

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Outfoxed

Rita Mae Brown · 409 pages

From the bestselling author of the landmark work Rubyfruit Jungle comes an engaging, original new novel that only Rita Mae Brown could have written. In the pristine world of Virginia foxhunting, hunters, horses, hounds, and foxes form a lively community of conflicting loyalties, where the thrill of the chase and the intricacies of human-animal relationships are experienced firsthand--and murder ex

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Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney

Emily Brightwell · 262 pages

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The Torso in the Town

Simon Brett · 346 pages

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

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Death On Demand

Carolyn G. Hart · 237 pages

The prime suspect in the murder of author Elliot Morgan, Annie Laurance Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, embarks on an investigation in an attempt to clear her name.

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A Killer Plot

Ellery Adams

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The Alpine Kindred

Mary Daheim · 377 pages

MURDER IS RELATIVEThe brutal stabbing of local philanthropist Einar Rasmussen Jr. outrages folk in the old logging town of Alpine. But, strangely, editor Emma Lord of The Alpine Advocate can scarcely pry a word out of the victim's reclusive relatives. Sheriff Milo Dodge isn't much help either, now that he and Emma are no longer an item. So intrepid Emma goes solo, hot after a story that sparks thr

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The Drowning Spool

Monica Ferris · 341 pages

"Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn't hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to teach a class on the tricky punchneedle technique, Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers. Unfortunately, the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety. A young woman is found floating in Wate

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Murder Passes the Buck

Deb Baker · 272 pages

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Poison in the Pen

Patricia Wentworth · 284 pages

A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribe. It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman’s husband may not have died of natural c

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A Story to Kill

Lynn Cahoon · 320 pages

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Still Life

Louise Penny · 380 pages

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own pol

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Finger Lickin' Dead

Riley Adams, Elizabeth Spann Craig · 287 pages

When her friend Evelyn's cheating boyfriend, a food critic who has been negatively reviewing several local restaurants, including hers, is found dead, Lulu Taylor works to catch the real killer and exonerate her loved ones.

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The Cat Who Caught a Killer

L.T. Shearer · 318 pages

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Turkey Day Murder

Leslie Meier · 256 pages

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